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Bill Hughes
Bill Hughes

Bill Hughes is an attorney, author, actor and photographer. His latest book is “Byline Baltimore.” It can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/William-Hughes/e/B00N7MGPXO/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

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President Donald Trump Loses Election, Declines to Concede & Promises a Battle Royal. Is He Close to His Breaking Point?

November 8, 2020 Bill Hughes

Image by Michael Bußmann from Pixabay Our country’s major, and most respected media outlets, such as CNN, MSNBC, and the

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Joseph Goebbels: A Master of Hateful Propaganda (Book Review)

November 4, 2020November 5, 2020 Bill Hughes

Joseph Goebbels was a master of propaganda of the most hateful kind, directed primarily against the Jewish people. He was

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Mickey Mantle: A Baseball Icon With a Serious Flaw (Book Review)

October 27, 2020 Bill Hughes

I recall, not fondly, a game the then-mighty New York Yankees played against our Baltimore Orioles way back on April

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The Political Legend That Was the Late Harry ‘Soft Shoes’ McGuirk

October 21, 2020 Bill Hughes

It was one of those awful, humid summer nights in Baltimore nearly seven decades ago. We were all sitting around the Locust Point Democratic Club in the 1200 block of Hull Street, dressed down to the basic essentials to escape the beastly elements.

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Memoir of a Baltimore City Homicide Detective (Book Review)

October 18, 2020 Bill Hughes

Image by Bruce Emmerling from Pixabay “[He] was breathing when his body was doused with gasoline and set on fire.

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CODEPINK’s Co-Founders, Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, Stepping Down from Leadership Roles

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 Bill Hughes

Medea Benjamin (Photo by Bill Hughes) Two of the finest social justice activists that I have known, Jodie Evans and

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Sacco & Vanzetti Case Revisited (Book Review)

October 12, 2020 Bill Hughes

“Great trials express–bear–the soul of a nation…” — The late historian, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1] It reads like the kind

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The Dictator, Josef Stalin: The Making of a Monster (Book Review)

October 7, 2020October 7, 2020 Bill Hughes

Image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay “Tell Stalin I shall be dying with his name on my lips.”

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The Final Exile of an Irish Immigrant – Nora Thornton Hughes 

October 3, 2020October 3, 2020 Bill Hughes

My mother died on October 8, 1988, at the age of 87. She was simply worn out by the vicissitudes

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The Patriot: John Eager Howard (Book Review)

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Bill Hughes

“Remember Howard’s warlike thrust…”  — from “Maryland, My Maryland,” (State’s Anthem) by James Ryder Randall John Eager Howard (1752-1827) was

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